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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' ADOLFO sAENZ YAnEZ, on HAVANA, CUBA.

LAMP AND WICK THEREFOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 368,698, dated August23, 1887. Application filed November 1, 1886. Serial No. 217,724. (No mdel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADOLFO SAENZ YASIEZ, of Havana, Cuba, at presentresiding in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented newand useful Improvements in Lamps and WVicks therefor, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention more particularly relates to lamps for burning variouskinds of hydrocarbon fluids and oils, in which a compound wick is usedcomposed of an ineombustible tip-piece of mineral or refractory materialand a cotton or other like fibrous wick or wicksection for feeding theburning fluid or oil to said tip-piece; and the invention consists incertain novel constructions and combinations of parts, substantially ashereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be hadto the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1' represents a side elevation of a lamp embodying my invention,with a shade, shown only in part, applied'thereto. Fig. 2 is a verticalcentral section of the upper portion of my improved lamp with shadeomitted. Figs. 3 and 4 are longitudinal views, in planes at right angleswith each other, of the compound wick and its holder; and Fig. 5 is aperspective view showing a modified construction of the incombustibletip-piece'or upper section of the compound wick.

A is the reservoir of the lamp, here shown as a hand one, but whichmight be a table or other description of lamp, and, so far as itsreservoir and other ordinary parts are concerned, may be made of anysuitable material. B is the lamp-top, and O the burner, provided withthe usual cone, b, perforated diaphragm c, and having an enlarged lowerneck,

(1, which is fitted to screw up and down within or through the lamp top,cap, or ring 13, for a purpose that will be hereinafter described. Theburner O is or may be also provided with a stand or support for theshade D of the lamp, and is fitted with a short wick-tube, 6, here shownas a flat one and as arranged to project up within the cone 1), asusual.

E is a wick tip or section of fiat or slab form, to fitfreely within thetube e, and made of bath-brick, unglazed porcelain, or other likeporousincombustiblematerial. Thistip piece or section is the portion ofthe wick which supplies the flame, its porous character providing forthe upward passage through it of the burning gases or vapors supplied bythe oil or fluid in the reservoir A. It is held in place within the tubee, above and below which it projects, and is inserted or removed, asrequired, therein or therefrom by means of a pinchers-like clip orclamp, F, adapted to receive the lower portion of said tip-piece withinit and of a transverse tubular construction at its base f,which is openabove to expose the lower end of the tip-piece E within it. Through thishollow or tubular base f a cotton or other like fibrous wick orwick-section, E, is doubled and descends into the reservoirA below tosupply the oil or burning-fluid by capillary attraction to the porousincombustible tip-piece E, which rests upon the upper end portion of thewick or wick-section E. The upper portion of the clip or clampvF iscomposed of two opposite side cheeks, interrupting at their lower endsthe continuity of the tubular base f. The two sections E E form acompound wick, which is indestructible .by reason of the incombustiblecharacter of the porous earthenware tip-piece E, to which the oil orfluid is freely supplied by the capillary action or property 01' thefibrous wick or wick-section E.

Fig. 5 of thedrawings shows a modification of the incombustibletip-piece E, which is eonstructed with a passage, 8, in its upper part,said passage consisting of a lower transverse tubular opening extendingthroughout the width of the tip-piece, with a kerf bisectiug thethickness of the tip-piece from the top edge down to said tubularopening.

The wick clamp or holder F fits loosely or freely within the tube 6, andis supported at a fixed or given altitude by a rod, 9, resting belowupon the base of the reservoir A. To regulate the flame, or to expose orproject, as required, the tippiece E above the tube e, or to extinguishthe flame, if necessary, the burner O is turned to the right or left, soas to screw or unscrew its lower neck, (1, up or down within the fixedtop B, and thereby to raise or lower the tube 6 to any desired distanceabove or below, if desired, the upper end of the stationary tip-piece Eof the wick.

Having thus described my invention, what I within and through it anupper porous incombustible tip-piece and lower fibrous doubled wick orwick-section, upon which the tip-piece rests, the wick clamp or holderF,

composed of a tubular passage, f, at its base and upper opposite sidecheeks, interrupting at their lower ends the continuity of the tubularbase-passage, essentially as shown and described.

2. The burner 0, provided with a wicktube, 0, and lower screw-neck, d,in combination with the lamp top or cap 13, having'a screw-threadadapted to fit said screw-neck,

the lamp-reservoir A, and the holder F of the wick, adapted to fitfreely within the wick tube, and provided with a lower support or rod,substantially as and "for the purposes herein set 'forth.

8. The porous incornbustible tip-piece E of the wick, constructed with apassage, 8, in its upper part, consisting of a lower transverse tubularopening extending throughout the width of the tip-piece, with a kerfbisecting' the thickness of the tip-piece from its top' edge down tosaid tubular openipg.

ADOLFO SAEN Z YANEZ. Witnesses:

EDGAR TATE, C. SEDewIoK.

